In the past, I have used dynamic IP services such as No-Ip.com and DynDNS.org to provide my home with a stable identifier on the internet. My router, a Linksys WRT-310N (running DD-WRT) is supposed to support running a daemon to update your IP at providers such as these, however I found that the scheduler ceased [...]

For those who are not aware, Matthew Good’s new album Vancouver is currently being aired on his website. This is slightly different from the previous web stream in that a) it is higher quality, b) it is live, i.e. everyone listening to it hears the same thing at the same time, and c) there are [...]

Last week I posted my first puzzle. I only received one response this week; it was from Calden, whose solution was quite a bit different from mine but which also made plenty of sense. I’ll cover his solution later on; for now, here is the intended solution. As you recall, we have two one-dimensional ropes at [...]

This is the first puzzle in what I hope will be a successful series operating in concert with Calden. This first puzzle is fairly straightforward and was posed by another student at SFL. You are given two one-dimensional ropes. Each rope takes exactly one hour to burn, however the time is not distributed evenly through the [...]

A friend of mine, Calden Wloka, has started an interesting semi-regular feature on his blog — puzzles! I try to participate in as many of these as I can, if only for the entertainment value, but the truth is that I enjoy the challenge and stimulating my disused brain cells. I have decided to pursue [...]

As you may or may not be aware, I use MPD as my desktop audio player (for mobile solutions such as my laptop, I use Rhythmbox or VLC). Futhermore, I use Sonata as a graphical interface for MPD — managing playlists, controlling playback, album art, etc. However, sometimes I find it more expedient to run a [...]

Today is April 5th, 2009. More than that, it is the first day of Summer here in Central Ontario. “Wait a second,” you’re saying, “I thought the Summer Solstice wasn’t until June 21st (05:45, to be precise)?” While you would be correct, this is not the definition of the first day of Summer that I [...]

Warning: This post relates to the latest developments of Battlestar Galactica (season 4.5) and is not spoiler-safe. I recommend against reading this post until you have finished watching episode 4×17 — Someone to Watch Over Me. Music First off, a note to the music in this episode. Holy crap! I am always a sucker for piano, and [...]

Hi, honey. Guess what I did at work today?I wore a bomb. A nuclear bomb in a field of flowers. Today marks the end of my latest stint of nostalgic sci-fi viewing as I finish off The Peacekeeper Wars, the capstone films to the series Farscape — which is, I might add, one of the best [...]